Then there's the case of Office AddIns that allowed either HKCU or HKLM in 2003, took away in 2007 ( and put it back with a hotfix and enabling registry value ) and really put it back in 2010 leaving one hell of a mess for us installer guys to deal with.
So, yes, YMMV... in the event it really needs to be HKCU like the poster asserted then my response below will help. ---------------------------------------- From: "Dan Gough" <goug...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:21 PM To: chr...@iswix.com, "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset." <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Internet Explorer Context Menu item for all users in a per machine install Or try applying the key to HKLM rather than HKCU in the first place. Many Windows settings can apply to either key to give you the flexibility of having each setting system-wide or per-user. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Christopher Painter <chr...@iswix.com> wrote: The Registry element has a Root attribute that you can set to HKCU. If your program has an advertised shortcut you can use this to trigger resilency to complete the installation for each user who uses your app. It's an ugly story though like the old Office install that popped up every time you went to a new conference room and logged in. http://wix.sourceforge.net/manual-wix3/wix_xsd_registry.htm Here's an alternative approach that avoids all that: http://blogs.flexerasoftware.com/installtalk/2011/11/using-active-setup-to-r epair-user-settings.html ---------------------------------------- From: "McCain, Jon" <jon.mcc...@inin.com> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:28 PM To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net)" <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [WiX-users] Adding Internet Explorer Context Menu item for all users in a per machine install I have been working on a new install where a context menu is added to the Right-Click Menu within Internet Explorer. Everything I have read regarding this requires the key be added to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer. This does work but the issue I have is that our installs are run as per-machine installs and this causes other users that login to not have this menu. Links to MSDN articles explaining context menu additions for Internet Explorer: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753589%28VS.85%29.aspx The wxs code is quite simple for this addition: <RegistryValue Id="ctd_classinfo_183" Action="write" Type="string" Root="HKCU" Key="Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\keyName" Value="[#FileID]"/> <RegistryValue Id="ctd_classinfo_184" Action="write" Type="string" Root="HKCU" Key="Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MenuExt\ keyName \Contexts" Value="1"/> Has anyone run into this or another issue where a per-machine install is performed but features or other items need to exist for all users in the above fashion? Thanks, Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
